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Café Ecologist 

Generally, a government employee or environmental consultant who has no practical field skills or an understanding of ecology.

Unable to navigate in the bush without the aid of a touch screen device. Turn up into the field dressed in completely new clothes, almost always in khaki and predominately featuring an outdoors store latest season catalogue. Various digital accoutrements hang off their belt to help with managing the wilderness. Prone to printing off a small woodlands worth of paperwork with every page colour coded, labelled and compartmentalised in corresponding coloured manilla folders. Cannot change a tyre.

Spend the majority of their time in the office obsessing of minor inconsequential details which will be overlooked by the client. Readily plot survey points on a map with scant regard for topography, vegetation density or difficulty of access for which they will then send out contractors to complete the actual work. Dislike meetings but will tolerate them for the tiny catered sandwiches during mid-morning tea. Drink soy lattes.

Have the fitness of a wounded gazelle. Consider light wind a significant hazard and will accordingly cancel the days work. Accustomed to hefty meal allowances of which most will be spent on sourdough and chia seeds. Don’t like spiders or things getting in their hair. Find fieldwork emotionally and physically traumatising despite their Instagram hashtags indicating otherwise.

Readily identify as an ‘ecologist’ in their email signature.
Standing at the precipice of a volcano looking down into a cauldron of boiling, angry lava.
Ecologist 1: Who put the site down there?
Ecologist 2: A fucking café ecologist.

ecologist 

a cool person who does science, drinks beer, loves the outdoors, and is invariably hot and sexy
"You don't look like one of those pasty scientists that spends all day in the lab and never has any fun."
"That's because I'm an ECOLOGIST."
ecologist by streamlover October 3, 2013

ecomodder 

A person using modifications to their car in hopes to increase his MPG. This is normally done to increase mileage for cheap in order to save money.

It can be from throwing parts into your engine to make it more fuel efficient or by making your car/bike more aerodynamic
Look at that custom boat-tail, he must be an ecomodder.
ecomodder by BobTheEcoFreak September 16, 2012

gender ecology 

A mental disorder where a rabid religious leader confuses the wood for the trees.
"Save the whales - harpoon a lesbian instead! Now that's TRUE gender ecology", shouted His Holiness Twerp Eggs Benedict MCMXLIV.
gender ecology by Diogenes II December 28, 2008

Ecomomical 

1. (adj.) of or referring to a mother using careful, efficient, and prudent use of resources: thrifty mom

2. (adj.) of or referring to an object operated or utilized by a mother with little waste or at a saving.
1. Terri is a totally ecomomical shopper.

2. Alyssa insisted on buying an ecomomical car.
Ecomomical by NUUC-Mom March 26, 2010

Econogoating 

Rick: "I can't get a job because this economy sucks!"

Mike: "Quit econogoating man. Maybe if you had some decent interview skills you would have been hired already."
Econogoating by Kyle Mannahan October 20, 2011